quotes about Amusing
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To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic
-- Anton Chekhov -
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
-- Arnold Bennett -
I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.
-- Bob NewhartSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.
-- Cary GrantSource : "Cary Grant is puzzled because you have No Time for Laughs" by Robert Ottaway in Picturegoer magazine, January 4, 1958.
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
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It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it
-- Clifford Geertz -
It was always amusing to be inside Apple and read what journalists said we were doing
-- Donald A. Norman -
Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
-- Fay Wray -
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
-- Fred Brooks -
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bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
-- George Eliot -
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
-- Gertrude Atherton -
Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt.
-- John Flanagan -
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It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.
-- John ForsytheSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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What would I put in a museum? Probably a museum! That's an amusing relic of our past.
-- John Hodgman -
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he guarantees you nothing but amusement. He does not guarantee you any of the little amenities by which society has assured itself that, if it must go to sleep, it will at least sleep in a comfortable chair.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
-- Maggie SmithSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I die pretty much every year. I find it amusing.
-- Mark-Paul GosselaarSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.
-- Maximilien de Bethune, Duke of Sully -
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
-- MoliereSource : MOLIERE (1965). “TARTUFFE”
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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.
-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos -
Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
-- Plato -
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
-- Spike Milligan -
The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.
-- Steve Aylett -
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Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.
-- William Shatner -
Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
-- Yahoo Serious -
There are moments in my show that are very moving as well as amusing.
-- Klaus Nomi -
What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.
-- Louis L'Amour -
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Life's more amusing than we thought.
-- Andrew LangSource : Andrew Lang (2014). “Rhymes à la Mode”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
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All the photographers were trying to just get me off, which was hilarious. But it was very, very amusing.
-- Bella HeathcoteSource : Source: www.justjared.com
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Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.
-- Rose Macaulay